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To: ThoreauHD
I don't think there is a conflict between science/actual proven history and the Bible's account of it.

The bible's account of human history is at variance with archeological, geological, and genetic evidence.

It's is scientifically impossible for homosapiens to have evolved to where we are in 200,000 years.

The entire field of biology will be extremely interested to see your proof of this impossibility. You should publish it and win a Nobel Prize.

How many Millions of years were dinosaurs on this planet and did not even approach our current faculty?

You appear to be assuming some superiority on our part over the dinosaurs (presumably on the basis of higher intelligence). Evolution isn't about some kind of climb to modern intelligence with humans as the ultimate expression. Learn what the theory says before you reject it.

Missing link=genetic minipulation. That's what science has proven and the Bible was there first with the answer. I don't see the conflict. They are one and the same.

Missing link = rare fossilisation and rare transitional forms. As it happens there is a good set of transitionals between our ape-like ancestors and modern homo sapiens. This is illustrated by the inability of creationists to agree on a classification for those forms as man or not-man.

And the 6 Days of creation reference is point of view dependent. 6 Days for whom if nothing was on the Earth to count a day? The rotation of a day varies from millions of years to our simple blink of 365 days rotation on this 3rd rock from the Sun. I don't doubt that validity of that either in the end.

You are reading a bronze-age creation myth with modern eyes. There is nothing to suggest that the originators of the bible story meant anything other than literal earth days.

192 posted on 01/03/2005 12:58:17 AM PST by Thatcherite (Conservative and Biblical Literalist are not synonymous)
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To: Thatcherite

"You are reading a bronze-age creation myth with modern eyes. There is nothing to suggest that the originators of the bible story meant anything other than literal earth days."

Not true! Gen 2:4 clearly indicates that the "day" of the six days of creation was an indefinite period of time. So is the the 7th day.

I am fluent in Hebrew and a biologist. It is best not to speak of things outside of your expertise when fighting creationists. Then you become just like them. Like a biochemist commenting on paleontology (Behe).


202 posted on 01/03/2005 4:47:07 AM PST by shubi (Peace through superior firepower.)
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